Christ Community - Shawnee Campus
Becoming - May 18 | Shawnee
Becoming Through Knowing - 9:00, 10:45 AM & ON-DEMAND
Locations & Times
Christ Community Church - Shawnee Campus
13330 W 62nd Terrace, Shawnee, KS 66216, USA
Sunday 7:00 AM
Title: Becoming Through Knowing
Reference: 2 Peter 1:1-12
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church
Reference: 2 Peter 1:1-12
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church
The most important thing you can know is a Person.
– Grow in knowledge of Jesus through communion with Jesus.
A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him. We are, perhaps, orthodox evangelicals. We can state the gospel clearly. We can smell unsound doctrine a mile away. Yet the question still arises: do we know our God?” “We must beware lest we become content with correct notions about God. Knowing about God is crucially important. But knowing about Him is not the same as knowing Him. We must go on to know God personally. Theology is only a means to this end. ~ J.I. Packer, Knowing God
We are here, as so often in theology, at the borders of language, because we are trying to talk at the same time about “something God does” and “something humans do” as if God were simply another character like ourselves, as though (in other words) the interplay of God’s work and our work could be imagined on the model of two people collaborating on a project. There are mysteries here that we do not need to explore further at this point. It is sufficient to note that the varieties of spiritual fruit Paul names, like the Christian virtues, remain both the work of the Spirit and the result of conscious choice and work on the part of the person concerned. ~ N.T. Wright, After You Believe
– Grow in knowledge of Jesus through learning good from evil from Jesus.
By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself. ~ Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge
Christ’s system of moral understanding and direction remained as a treasured store of knowledge about the good and the right, to guide us in being and doing, far up into the twentieth century. It was assumed and represented as knowledge by social and governmental institutions until well into the middle of that century, though by then it had been under attack by a small group of “advanced” thinkers for some time. It may have been dismissed, but to the present day no plausible alternative to it as a basis of individual and social existence has emerged, nothing that even comes close. Today we are, as a culture, in a condition of simple moral drift. ~ Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today
– Grow in knowledge of Jesus through remembering Jesus with your body.
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